Dust of the Earth

California, 1877Frenchwoman Catherine Bourchier flees an abusive husband and risks everything on a vineyard in far-off America. In the smouldering powder keg of San Francisco, Chi-en Shambles is exiled from his own Chinatown community. Can his extraordinary talents and natural decency win acceptance and love where a man is measured a by dollars, ignorance and prejudice?An unlikely alliance offers each damaged outcast a final chance in the `New Eden' of Napa Valley. But the past and its ghosts are never truly dead. And the dust of the earth never settles. Sometimes both come knocking at your door.